A U.S. Senate debate?…maybe

Democratic challenger Barbara Ann Radnofsky announced today that she and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison have agreed to a televised debate Oct. 19 in San Antonio. They and Libertarian candidate Scott Lanier Jameson of Plano may, indeed, get together then, but don’t mark the date in ink yet, just in pencil.

Hutchison consultant Bryan Eppstein said the senator had “tentatively” agreed to the debate, to be sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Texas, provided all the “logistics” are worked out.

Raul Salazar, the league’s executive administrator, said it was best to characterize the debate as still in the “planning” stage because there is still “some disagreement on the specifics of it.”

Salazar said organizers were still trying to work out details like the makeup of a panel of questioners and the format of the questions. If everything is worked out, the debate will be broadcast live from KLRN, the public television station in San Antonio.